Athletico Mince

[Twed]

Roy Hodgson is okay. Bob keeps that one in line, playing the straight man.

[DrGreggles]

New Mince episode up on Parsnips.

God, I fucking love Crime Files.

[phantom_power]

I wish Andy would stop ruining the flow by interrupting Bob with misplaced motorbike noises

[Mantis Toboggan]

The latest Guru was actually very good. Chalk that one up as the second time I've laughed at Andy.

[Ferris]

I wish Andy would stop ruining the flow by interrupting Bob with misplaced motorbike noises

[Replies From View]

Has anybody tried re-editing Athletico Mince into a solo Bob Mortimer project?  I know it would result in a lot of fragments not making sense as we'd only be hearing half a conversation, but I still wonder what it would be like.

[steamed hams]

The latest Guru was actually very good. Chalk that one up as the second time I've laughed at Andy.

Yes I quite liked that. Don't think I've ever heard Bob laughing so much at one of Andy's bits before.

[Twed]

Has anybody tried re-editing Athletico Mince into a solo Bob Mortimer project?  I know it would result in a lot of fragments not making sense as we'd only be hearing half a conversation, but I still wonder what it would be like.

Objectively worse

[Ferris]

Has anybody tried re-editing Athletico Mince into a solo Bob Mortimer project?  I know it would result in a lot of fragments not making sense as we'd only be hearing half a conversation, but I still wonder what it would be like.

That's how I listen - finger poised on the "skip forward 15 seconds" button on my podcast app.

Works very well.

[Old Nehamkin]

Has anybody tried re-editing Athletico Mince into a solo Bob Mortimer project?  I know it would result in a lot of fragments not making sense as we'd only be hearing half a conversation, but I still wonder what it would be like.

Bizarrely incoherent?

[NoOffenceLynn]

I'm still in cause of Beardsley and his monotone observations. It's such a dull uneventful life, what with falling out with the missus an all, but he carries on unaffected, through it all.

You know like. Sometimes *whisper* I wish I was more like Beardsley

[Old Gold Tooth]

I'm still in cause of Beardsley and his monotone observations. It's such a dull uneventful life, what with falling out with the missus an all, but he carries on unaffected, through it all.

You know like. Sometimes *whisper* I wish I was more like Beardsley

The latest Beardsley compilation on Parsnips is a thing of beauty.

[NoOffenceLynn]

The latest Beardsley compilation on Parsnips is a thing of beauty.

Ah, haven't heard it yet, thank you.

[Replies From View]

Bizarrely incoherent?

Most probably, but it would lack Andy.


Swings and roundabouts, innit.  Anyway it would be an interesting experiment.

[Blue Jam]

OHHHHHHH YEAH:

[DrGreggles]

Hasn't Klopp already appeared at some point?

[Twed]

Andy Dawson is exactly a "Paramount Comedy channel 2am slot circa year 2001"-level comedian.

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

Any time Andy tries to do characters its comedy death. One note, dirge.

The only, very rare exception is Slaughters which he nailed. Quite odd that every other character he does he's shite and only one he hit just right.

But he's basically just doing a version of Vic Reeves' Barry White.

[PlanktonSideburns]

The last two

FOX!

songs Andy has done has been brilliant

[phantom_power]

It just the same joke with all of his songs isn't it?

[Replies From View]

But he's basically just doing a version of Vic Reeves' Barry White.

What a surprise that his one good thing is yet again someone else's work

[Mantis Toboggan]

The last two

FOX!

songs Andy has done has been brilliant

Really?!

I thought it was funny the first time. The second time just made me cringe.  No doubt he will stick with it for 43 episodes because Bob laughed first time around.

Probe tubes, Hodgson, Corbyn...the guy is an unfunny cunt.

[sutin]

The last two

FOX!

songs Andy has done has been brilliant

The second one was fucking woeful.

[Twed]

I hate Andy referencing the few bits of comedy he's done that landed (e.g. "free sweeties"). Repetition fails unless it's in the hands of a master comedian like Bob.

[dunelm]

No doubt he will stick with it for 43 episodes because Bob laughed first time around.

It will never cease to amaze me that the comic genius that is Bob Mortimer finds Andy funny.

[alan nagsworth]

It strikes me as even more odd that it will apparently literally never stop dumbfounding you that someone else likes something you don't.

Baffled that people are still blathering on about it tbh. It's gone way beyond "discussion" and is extremely tiresome.

[the]

It's critical vanity. Preening insincere complaint-addicts saying exactly the same statement over and over in perpetuity because they think it reflects on them in some way. Still enjoying AM but seriously fuck this joyless turd of a thread

[dunelm]

It strikes me as even more odd that it will apparently literally never stop dumbfounding you that someone else likes something you don't.

Except it's not as simple as that is it. This is Bob Mortimer, arguably the funniest man alive finding Dawson who is 98% utterly shit, funny. That is unusual given the rarified category Bob occupies. Only a proponent of Andy, which is lonely work it has to be said, would argue otherwise. 

Baffled that people are still blathering on about it tbh. It's gone way beyond "discussion" and is extremely tiresome.

Why bother mentioning it then? All you're doing is continuing the 'discussion'.

I do find those defending Andy odd. He's shit, end of. A glance through this thread confirms the vast vast majority agrees.

[alan nagsworth]

"He's shit, end of. But despite this having been established, allow me to say it once more."

I'm continuing the discussion because it has long since evolved from talking about how shit Andy is to talking about talking about how shit Andy is. I'm bemoaning it because I think people need to shut the fuck up about it. END OF! Rant over!! Sorry not sorry lol!

[DrGreggles]

It will never cease to amaze me that the comic genius that is Bob Mortimer finds Andy funny.

Maybe Bob is right and you're wrong?
He is a comic genius after all.